I would limit it on the upstream router. We just give ours a 100mb/s port and call it a day. But I think rate limiting upstream would work the best if you need it to run speeds other then just standard eth speeds (10/100/1000). On 3/22/2011 12:11 PM, Jim Kusznir wrote: > So do users have a suggestion on how to throttle / rate limit their > mirror server? Mine sits on a gig-e connection, and I just got a call > from campus IT questioning the amount of bandwidth I'm using...Right > now, I'm running it "fully open", but I may have to restrict that, at > least during certain hours. I run http, ftp, and rsync on my server. > > Thanks! > > --Jim > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Nick Olsen<Nick at 141networks.com> wrote: >> Ours is quite bursty, Sits around only 5-30mb/s normally. But will >> sometimes hammer the 100Mb/s ethernet port its on for 20minutes to an hour. >> >> On 3/18/2011 12:33 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> | I'm setting up a public mirror (ftp only so far) on one of our servers >>> | and was wondering what kind of bandwidth usage to plan for. We have >>> | about 100M overall at this site, but I want to make sure that I can >>> | limit the rate appropriately. I had planned on doing this using the >>> | ftp >>> | server's configuration (vsftpd). >>> | >>> | Anyone have any notes on a good ballpark figure for maximum number of >>> | connections and maximum bandwidth per connection? Any horror stories, >>> | grim warnings or sage advice appreciated. >>> >>> I was averaging about 50-100MBps when I initially deployed. When the mirror was in full swing I was saturating my Gigabit switches. It's now been throttled to 20MBps during peak hours if you aren't on CA*Net or Canarie and if you are 50MBps during peak hours. >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS-mirror mailing list >> CentOS-mirror at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror >> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-mirror mailing list > CentOS-mirror at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror